From the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health and the Gold Foundation

ShareTools: A resource for health professions educators to integrate humanities-based, anti-racism education 

ShareTools is a free resource to support health professions educators seeking to integrate humanities-based, anti-racism education for their learners. This resource leverages the power of the health humanities as a pedagogical tool, providing a comprehensive facilitator's guide, detailed instructions for implementing curricular modules, an image library, and more.

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Rehearsing empathy: exploring the role of poetry in supporting learning

How can poetry be used to enhance and nurture empathy in health professions education? This paper by Kirsten Jack and Sam Illingworth highlights how poetry can challenge assumptions, expand perspectives about care, and foster empathy and self-awareness among learners.

Continue reading in Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice

Supporting youth mental health with arts-based strategies: a global perspective

How can arts- and culture-based programs help address the youth mental health crisis? In this article, Tasha L. Golden and colleagues review how engagement with arts programming can positively impact the wellbeing of youth around the world and call for critical next steps in research and strategy.

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Prevalence of visual art education in medical school curricula: a national survey of US medical schools

With the Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (FRAHME) initiative of the Association of American Medical Colleges in mind, Sally Nijim and colleagues set out to assess current visual arts-based course offerings at US medical schools, including trends based on school type (allopathic or osteopathic) and location.

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Featured Annotation: Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

In this annotation from the NYU Langone LitMed Database archive, Guy Glass writes of this book by Rachel Aviv: "Strangers to Ourselves provides a fascinating glimpse at people whose psychiatric conditions cannot be fully understood through existing paradigms. As a journalist, and given her own history of being questionably diagnosed, Aviv has a unique perspective."

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Call for Abstracts: 2025 Gold Humanism Summit

The Gold Foundation invites abstract submissions for the 2025 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, taking place September 17-20, 2025, in Baltimore. Proposals should reflect a humanistic approach to healthcare – defined as safe, kind, and engendering trust – and demonstrate action-oriented approaches that directly impact the way patient care is delivered.

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Quick Links:

• Nursing and Playwriting Students Collaborative: Elevating Reflective Practice
• Using Comics as Data Collection and Training Tools to Understand and Prevent Provider-Enacted HIV Stigma
• Medical Humanities and Artificial Intelligence: Boundaries, Methodologies, Practice
• The Great Read: Two Women Writing from Bed, One Drawing: Alice James, Virginia Woolf, Renée French
• All You Need Is Music: Supporting Medical Students’ Emotional Development With a Music-Based Pedagogy

• Two New York Academy of Medicine Library Fellowships, deadline 8/23/24
• 14th Annual Midwestern Medical Humanities Conference: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, deadline 9/15/24
• 2024 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/23/24
• Special issue of Studies in the Novel: Disability and Disease in the Novel, deadline 10/1/24
• Special issue of Analetica Hermeneutica: Rethinking patient-centered care: Exploring the interpretive and relational nature of clinical practice, deadline 1/1/25
• Panacea: online newsletter for and by patients, providers, caregivers and beyond, no deadline

Sep. 4-6

2024 Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine Conference (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Sep. 18-21

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Annual Conference (St. Louis, MO)

Sep. 21

Finding Our Voices: Humanities In Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)

Sep. 24 - Feb. 18

Training our Eyes, Minds and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals (online)

Oct. 5 & Nov. 2

Narrative in End-of-Life Care: Tools for Communication and Compassionate Care (online)

Oct. 9 - Nov. 20

Nourishing Narratives: Creative Strategies for Well-being (online)

Oct. 18-20

Foundational Narrative Medicine Virtual Workshop (online)

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